Reinforcing and shape-keeping card for clothes.



S. D. GILKERSON. REINFORCING AND SHAPE KEEPING CARD FOR CLOTHES.AiPLIGATION FILED AUG.14. 1911 1,021,593, Patened Mar. 26, 1912.

SOLOMON DAVID GILKERSON, 0F WINNI?EG-, MANITOBA, CANADA.

REINFOBQCING AND SHAPE-KEEPING CARD FOR CLOTHES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 23, 1%12.

Application filed August 14, 1911. Serial No. 644,030.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, SOLOMON DAVID G11.- KERSON, of the city of Winnipeg,in the Province of Manitoba, Canada, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Reinforcing and Shape-Keeping Cards for Clothes,of which the following is the specification.

My invention relates to a card insertibie particularly within coatsprior to the coats being placed in boxes for delivering purposes, andthe object of the invention is to provide an inexpensive and eflicientdevice which will effectually prevent the coat from shifting within thebox and becoming wrinkled or creased, a particular feature being thatthe shoulders are kept from being flattened down.

\Vith the above object in view the invention consists essentially in thearrangement and construction of parts hereinafter more particularlydescribed and later pointed out in the appended claim.

Figure 1 is a plan View of the card as it appears when in use prior tothe coat being finally folded in the box. Fig. 2 is plan view of thecard. Fig. 3 is a side view of the same.

In the drawing like characters of reference indicate corresponding partsin each figure.

1 represents a past-eboard box as is customarily used for delivering asuit of clothes. F

2 represents a pasteboard or other suit able thin card of a size whichwill allow it to pass into the box when it is fitted into the coat 3 aslater explained. The card is out so as to presenta shape similar to theback of a coat, it having four corners cut away to present edges 4:, 5,6, and 7, the edges 4 and 5 corresponding to the shoulder seam of theback of the coat, while those 6 and 7 correspond to part of the sideseam thereof. The sides 8 and 9 of the card intermerliate between theedges 4, 6, and 5, 7, respectively, corresponding with what iscalledfthe back arms of the coat back.

10 is a tab or flap extending from the top of the card and designed toenter what is termed, the neck gorge, of the coat.

When the article is used it is inserted within the coat with the sides 8and 9 entering the arm holes, and the tab 10 extending more or less atright angles from the .55 body of the card through the collar of thecoat. The coat with the inserted card. is then placed in the box asshown in Fig. l, with the coat collar appearing between the tab 10 andthe side of the box so that the coat collar is kept in the naturalposition through the combined. efi'ort of the tab and the side of thebox. The coat sleeves are folded to the front as shown, after which thetail of the coat, or that which extends geyond the box, is turnedupwardly into the v Just after the card is inserted within the coat theusual trousers and vest of a suit of clothes are placed on the upperface of the card beneath the coat lapels and within the shoulder pads,so that when the cover is finally placed on the box and the box isshipped or delivered. the coat cannot shift in it and become wrinkled orcreased as is customary where no card is employed.

It is to be noticed that there is simply enough clearance left betweenthe edges of the card and the walls of the box to allow the coat, withthe inserted card, to be placed .snugly in the box.

'If it is considered advisable by the merchant to turn the coat insideout when packing .to preserve the front so that in event of accident thelining only will be damaged, the card is inserted within the reversedcoat in the same manner as above described, but in this case the sides 8and 9 enter the reversed arm-holes.

What I claim as my invention is:

A shape keeping card for coats having at the top a projecting tab,adapted to be folded back at right angles to the body of the card andadapted to bear against the side of the containing box so as to hold the95 collar of a coat fitted on the card in the up;

right position, and having edges inclining downwardly from oppositesides'of the tab and corresponding "to the slope of the shoulders of thecoat, straight side edges for straight lower edge "for determining thepoint of fold of the bod stantially as described. 7

Signed at Winnipeg, in the Province of y of the coat, sub- Manitoba,this 28th day of July 1911.

SOLOMON DAVID GILKERSON.

In the presence of J. S. ROXBURGH,

. K. ELKIN

